Abstract

This paper illuminates the feminist journalistic cultural movement of The Women’s News, which navigated the dual landscape of “commercial mass media” and “activist politics journalism” during the late 1980s democratic transition. Focusing on first editor-in-chief Goh Jung-hee, this study examines the “feminist literature network” and the discourse of “ women’s liberation democracy” as a transition toward a feminist cultural movement. The Women’s News functioned as a hub for solidarity. feminist literature network persisted despite organizational shifts. Those popular practices were multi-layered projects of “ women’s liberation democracy, ” which signified democracy as the realization of women’s culture and deepened the democratic horizons of Goh’s poetry. Furthermore, the weekly newspaper format served as a medium to bridge commercialism and activism. Within this structure, feminist literature embodied popular mediality while imprinting a vision of systemic transformation.